You cannot begrudge David Moyes taking the Manchester United job. Sir Alex Ferguson essentially told him that he would be the next manager and he had little choice but to accept. What kind of person would turn down that sort of job?

Moyes isn’t to blame for United’s current predicament. He is obscenely under-qualified for the job, so the fault lies in the hands of Ferguson for picking him and the Glazer family for appointing him.

United have youth team players who are seemingly better media trained than him. He attends press conferences, talking about how he intends to make it ‘difficult’ for Newcastle when they come to Old Trafford, and exposes himself as someone who is totally out of his depth.

[Ferguson’s] last decision as United manager was to ensure that someone totally incompetent replaced him

‘We have played a very good side, playing at the sort of level we are aspiring to,’ Moyes told Sky Sports after the defeat. ‘We need to come up a couple of levels ourselves because at the moment we are not there.’

There probably aren’t many clubs whose fans would not be booing the manager at every game if they had overseen such an incredible decline in such a short space of time.

Moyes has been fortunate that, until yesterday, his name was sung at every single game, home and away. Tonight, those songs were absent. After hearing those post-match comments, United fans will be relieved that they withdrew their vocal support for him. United aspiring to be like City? Is Moyes suicidal?

Thankfully for Moyes, Ferguson is so strongly associated with the appointment that United fans can’t even protest by singing songs for the former manager. In hindsight, it’s likely that Ferguson regrets making it so public that Moyes only got the job because of him.

Worries faces: David Moyes and Ryan Giggs look concerned in the United dugout (Picture: Reuters)

His last decision as United manager was to ensure that someone totally incompetent replaced him, tarnishing the legacy somewhat.

Moyes is a good bloke, a good manager for small clubs without much money, but is nowhere near ready to manage a club of United’s status.

And if Reds think it’s bad now, just wait until Bayern Munich come to town. The German side have already won the league so will have their best line-up available and rested.

You may think the results against Liverpool and City are bad, but they’re nothing in comparison to the football lesson the Germans are about to dish out.